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6 perpendicular lines of the sides of the water spout, and the sun shining upon it rendered it in some points of view of a dazzling brightness. Standing with our backs to the sun, and looking into the mouth of the pipe, we enjoyed the sight of a most brilliant assemblage of all the colours of the rainbow, caused by the decomposition of the solar rays passing through the shower of drops that was falling between us and the crater. After the water had risen to the vast height above described, I ventured to stand in the midst of the thickest of the shower of spray; where I remained till my clothes were all wetted through, but still scarcely felt that the water was warmer than my own temperature. Stones of the largest size that I could find, and great masses of the silicious rock, which we threw into the crater, were instantly ejected by the force of the water, were shivered into small pieces, though so solid as not to he broken hut by very hard blows from a large hammer, and were carried up frequently higher than the summit of the spout. We were informed by the people living in the neighbourhood, that in the spring of 1808, a violent shock of an earthquake was felt, which made an aperture for another hot spring, and caused the whole of them to cease flowing for fifteen days.

Dr. H who visited the Geyser in 1814 and 15, gives a very interesting account of these wonderful displays of Almighty power.

“We had now a pleasant ride over the marshes to the hot springs, called the Geysers,